Weekly IT Newsletter – July 13-17, 2015

Microsoft Exchange:

· EWS Contacts rollup Powershell module – 13-July-2015 –

· Exchange Server 2016: All You Need to know Part 2 – 14-July-2015 –

· Exchange 2016 architecture recommendations – 16-July-2015 –

· Testing Connectivity and DNS Changes with a Hosts File – 14-July-2015

· PowerShell Script to Report RBAC Role Group Membership – 15-July-2015

· Exchange Shell errors after incorrectly modifying IIS – 17-July-2015

Skype for Business:

· New Tool Part 2: Skype for Business Call Forwarding Information Tool – 13-July-2015 –

· Microsoft Releases July 2015 update for Lync 2013 (Skype for Business) (KB3054946) – 14-July-2015 –

· Lync client call Ignore option result in fast-busy signal for incoming calls coming from Cisco – 13-July-2015 –

· Free Skype for Business Monitoring Tool gets Daily Reporting Module – 17-July-2015 –

· Skype Meeting Broadcast first impression – 13-July-2015 –

· Rate My Call–Skype for Business – 12-July-2015

· How to pull Exchange Online Unified Messaging Reports – 12-July-2015

· Error 3007 – Skype for Business Server – LS Replica Replicator Agent Service could not be started – 16-July-2015

· Skype for Business – Is CloudPBX Enterprise Voice? – 16-July-2015

· Skype for Business Prevent Automatic Client Sign in on Common Area Computers – 13-July-2015

· Lync UM integration breaks Lync/Exchange fax tone detection in Exchange and ability to work with third party applications – 15-July-2015

Active Directory:

· PowerShell and logon Scripts – 15-July-2015 –

· Analyze Session Logon Duration – 16-July-2015 –

· TsooRaD: Windows PKI SHA-1 to SHA-2 – 15-July-2015

· Group Policy Preferences in the Local GPO? Yes! – 13-July-2015

· Group Policy Auditing & Attestation 2.0 Hits with new AD Group Attestation Feature – 15-July-2015

· Configuring Active Directory with PowerShell DSC and the New xADRecycleBin Resource – 15-July-2015

Office 365:

· What’s new: June 2015 – 13-July-2015 –

· What’s new on the Office Roadmap – 16-July-2015 –

· Step-by-step video: Set up ADFS for Office 365 for Single Sign-On – 17-July-2015 –

· New IT management controls added to OneDrive for Business – 16-July-2015 –

· Autodiscover flow in an Exchange Hybrid environment | Part 1#3 | Part 32#36 – 12-July-2015

· Microsoft announces new top-of-the-range E5 plan for Office 365 – 14-July-2015

· Intune and Exchange ActiveSync (Part 2) – 16-July-2015

· Got a suggestion for how to improve Intune technical documentation? – 14-July-2015

Windows Azure:

· Integrate your on-premises infrastructure with Azure – 16-July-2015 –

· Azure Site Recovery GA: Move VMware, AWS, Hyper-V and Physical Servers to Azure – 16-July-2015 –

· Azure Marketplace announces new features and functionality – 15-July-2015 –

· Q. Is there an easier way to call Azure Automations from the Azure Scheduler? – 15-July-2015

· Working with Marketplace Images on Azure Resource Manager – 15-July-2015

· HOW-TO: Building V2 VNET-to-VNET Connections with Azure Resource Manager and PowerShell in 5 Steps – 13-July-2015

Windows Server 2012 & Windows Server 2012 R2:

· DNS Policies in Windows Server 2016 Tech Preview 2 – 13-July-2015 –

· What’s New in VMware vSphere 6.0? – 16-July-2015

· Microsoft Named a Leader in Gartner’s Server Virtualization Magic Quadrant for Fifth Consecutive Year – 16-July-2015

Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10:

· Windows 10 has apparently RTMed with build 10240 and is out now to Insiders – 15-July-2015 –

· MS kills critical IE 11 bug after exploit was shopped to Hacking Team – 14-July-2015

· Microsoft has released a minor security and bugfix update for Windows 10 – 17-July-2015

· Game streaming now enabled for all Xbox One owners with a Windows 10 PC – 17-July-2015

Windows Phone:

· Cortana for Android leaks ahead of official release – 17-July-2015 –

· Windows 10 Mobile Store adds new hamburger menu options in latest update – 17-July-2015 –

· Windows Phone Weekly Digest – 19-July-2015 –

· Hyperlapse for Windows Phone updated to work on more Lumia devices – 18-July-2015

· Microsoft pushes updates to several Windows 10 Mobile core apps – 17-July-2015

Microsoft Office:

· OneNote July mobile updates for iOS and Android – 16-July-2015 –

· 6 updates in Power Query for Excel – 15-July-2015 –

· Sway Use Case series #3: Small business Sways – 16-July-2015

SharePoint & Office Web App Server:

· Six ways to restore SharePoint content – 12-July-2015

· Webpart Provisioning to SharePoint online by PowerShell – 18-July-2015

· PowerShell to backup/restore SharePoint Site, Library and document permissions: SPPermissionBackup – 18-July-2015

SQL:

· How to recover SQL db with corrupted log – 15-July-2015

System Center:

· Automating OpsMgr Part 6: Adding Monitoring Objects to Instance Groups – 13-July-2015

· Automating OpsMgr Part 7: Updated OpsMgrExtended Module – 17-July-2015

KB’s:

· Unable to reserve a resource for a meeting after the resource mailbox is migrated to Exchange Online – 17-July-2015 –

· “0x000000D1” Stop error on a Windows Server 2012-based cluster – 14-July-2015 –

· Anonymous user cannot use the PSTN dial-out “call me” option to join an audio meeting from Lync Web App in Lync Server 2013 – 17-July-2015 –

· Update user interface for group contact counts in contact lists in Skype for Business or Lync 2013 – 14-July-2015 –

· Move request that uses RemoteLegacy from Exchange Server 2013 to Exchange Server 2007 never completes – 14-July-2015

· Can’t open Windows Store applications in Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012 R2 – 17-July-2015

· The Lsass.exe process crashes if the CredGroup object is incorrectly dereferenced in Windows 7 SP1 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 – 17-July-2015

Downloads & Recent Releases:

· How Microsoft IT built a private cloud self-service offering – 18-July-2015 –

· Microsoft® SQL Server 2016® Upgrade Advisor Preview 1 – 18-July-2015 –

· Update for Microsoft Office Web Apps Server 2013 (KB3054930) – 18-July-2015 –

· July 2015 Security Release ISO Image – 18-July-2015

· Microsoft Edge – 18-July-2015

· Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 14.5.3 Update – 18-July-2015

Scripts & PowerShell:

· Git for IT Professionals: Getting Started – 13-July-2015 –

· Managing NTFS permissions with PowerShell – 13-July-2015

· Understanding PowerShell Script Debugging – 16-July-2015

· Powershell: Login As Batch Job Security Rights – 18-July-2015

· Tracing the Execution of a PowerShell Script – 13-July-2015